Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)

Florence Nightingale is remembered as the founder of modern nursing as a trained profession. Her work in the Crimean War established a medical precedent for sanitary conditions in wartime hospitals. She also invented a type of pie chart.

"Nightingale's achievements are all the more impressive when they are considered against the background of social restraints on women in Victorian England. Her father, William Edward Nightingale, was an extremely wealthy landowner, and the family moved in the highest circles of English society. In those days, women of Nightingale's class did not attend universities and did not pursue professional careers; their purpose in life was to marry and bear children. Nightingale was fortunate. Her father believed women should be educated, and he personally taught her Italian, Latin, Greek, philosophy, history and – most unusual of all for women of the time – writing and mathematics." -- science historian I. Bernard Cohen, cited in Wikipedia

Known for
pioneering modern nursing

pioneering sanitation procedures

statistics, including inventing the pie chart type called polar area diagram, or Nightingale rose diagraom

social reformer

prolific writer

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